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Contact:	TIM MASSIE (845) 575-3171 TRACEY BALDWIN MCGRAIL, HONORS PROGRAM DIRECTOR (845) 575-3000, EXT. 2608

FALL HONORS LECTURE TO FOCUS ON HUDSON RIVER VALLEY AND EDITH WHARTON

POUGHKEEPSIE - Dr. Alan Price, professor emeritus of English at Pennsylvania State University, will deliver the Marist College Honors Program Fall Lecture, "The Hudson River Valley Through Edith Wharton's French Lens," on November 3 at 7 p.m. in the Henry Hudson Room of Fontaine Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Price is the author of "The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War" (St. Martin, 1996). He is co-editor of an essay collection, "Wretched Exotic: Essays on Edith Wharton in Europe." He has published numerous essays situating Wharton in literary Naturalism and exploring the cultural-historical context of her fiction, including "International Responses to Edith Wharton," "Edith Wharton's War Story," "Dreiser's Cowperwood and Wharton's Undine," "Lily Bart and Carrie Meeber: Cultural Sisters," "The Composition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence," and "Edith Wharton's Battle with the American Red Cross."

The lecture is cosponsored by the Hudson River Valley Institute and the college's School of Liberal Arts.

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For further information, call the Marist College Office of Public Affairs at (845) 575-3174.